Stability to weakly dissipative Timoshenko systems

In this paper, we consider the Timoshenko systems with frictional dissipation working only on the vertical displacement. We prove that the system is exponentially stable if and only if the wave speeds are the same. On the contrary, we show that the Timoshenko systems is polynomially stable giving the optimal decay rate. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exponential Decay Rate for a Timoshenko Beam with Boundary Damping

The exponential decay rate of a Timoshenko beam system with boundary damping is studied. By asymptotically analyzing the characteristic determinant of the system, we prove that the Timoshenko beam system is a Riesz system; hence, its decay rate is determined via its spectrum. As a consequence, by showing that the imaginary axis neither has an eigenvalue on it nor is an asymptote of the spectrum, we conclude that the system is exponentially stable.     

Stability of Timoshenko systems with thermal coupling on the bending moment

The Timoshenko system is a distinguished coupled pair of differential equations arising in mathematical elasticity. In the case of constant coefficients, if a damping is added in only one of its equations, it is well‐known that exponential stability holds if and only if the wave speeds of both equations are equal. In the present paper we study both non‐homogeneous and homogeneous thermoelastic problems where the model's coefficients are non‐constant and constants, respectively. Our main stability results are proved by means of a unified approach that combines local estimates of the resolvent equation in the semigroup framework with a recent control‐observability analysis for static systems. Therefore, our results complement all those on the linear case provided in [22], by extending the methodology employed in [4] to the case of Timoshenko systems with thermal coupling on the bending moment.     

Uniform decay of energy for a porous thermoelasticity system with past history

In this paper, we consider a one-dimensional porous thermoelasticity system with past history, which contains a porous elasticity in the presence of a visco-porous dissipation, a macrotemperature effect and temperature difference. We establish the exponential stability of the system if and only if the equations have the same wave speeds, and obtain the energy decays polynomially to zero in the case that the wave speeds of the equations are different.     

Exponential stability for a Timoshenko-type system with history

In this paper, we consider hyperbolic Timoshenko-type vibrating systems that are coupled to a heat equation modeling an expectedly dissipative effect through heat conduction. We use the semigroup method to prove the exponential stability result with assumptions on past history relaxation function g exponentially decaying for the equal wave-speed case.     

A general stability result in a Timoshenko system with infinite memory: A new approach

In this paper, we consider a Timoshenko system in the presence of an infinite memory, where the relaxation function satisfies a relation of the form Under the same hypothesis on g and ξ imposed for the finite memory case, we establish some general decay results for the equal and nonequal speed propagation cases. Our results improve in some situations some known decay rates. Also, some applications to other problems are discussed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A stability result of a Timoshenko system with a delay term in the internal feedback

In this paper, we consider a Timoshenko system with a delay term in the feedback and prove a stability result. The beam is clamped at the endpoints and has, in addition to an internal damping, a feedback with a delay.Under an appropriate assumption on the weights of the two feedbacks, we prove the well-posedness of the system and establish an exponential decay result for the case of equal-speed wave propagation.     

A stability and numerical study of the solutions of a Timoshenko system with distributed delay

In this work, we analyze the stability of the semigroup associated with a Timoshenko beam model with distributed delay in the rotation angle equation. We show that the type of stability resulting from the semigroup is directly related to some model coefficients, which constitute the velocities of the system's component equations. In the case of stability of the polynomial type, we prove that rate obtained is optimal. We conclude the work performing a numerical study of the solutions and their energies, associated to discrete system.     

具有边界控制的线性Timoshenko型系统的指数稳定性

研究多孔弹性材料在实际应用中的稳定性问题.多孔物体的动力学行为由线性Timoshenko型方程描述,这样的系统一般只是渐近稳定但不指数稳定,假定系统在一端简单支撑,另一端自由,在自由端对系统施加边界反馈控制,讨论闭环系统的适定性和指数稳定性.首先,证明了由闭环系统决定的算子A是预解紧的耗散算子、生成C0压缩半群,从而得到了系统的适定性.进一步通过对系统算子A的本征值的渐近值估计,得到算子谱分布在一个带域,相互分离的,模充分大的本征值都是A的简单本征值.通过引入一个辅助算子A0,利用算子A0的谱性质以及算子A与A0之间的关系,得到了A的广义本征向量的完整性以及Riesz基性质.最后利用Riesz基性质和谱分布得到闭环系统的指数稳定性.     

A new general decay for a transmission problem of viscoelastic Timoshenko systems

In this paper, we investigate the long-time behavior for a transmission problem of viscoelastic Timoshenko systems with different speeds of wave propagation. By constructing a new Lyapunov functional and combining the technique of perturbation energy with some precise estimates for multipliers, we establish a general uniform decay estimates for the energy.     

Mindlin–Timoshenko systems with Kelvin–Voigt: analyticity and optimal decay rates

This paper is concerned with asymptotic stability of Mindlin–Timoshenko plates with dissipation of Kelvin–Voigt type on the equations for the rotation angles. We prove that the corresponding evolution semigroup is analytic if a viscoelastic damping is also effective over the equation for the transversal displacements. On the contrary, if the transversal displacement is undamped, we show that the semigroup is neither analytic nor exponentially stable. In addition, in the latter case, we show that the solution decays polynomially and we prove that the decay rate found is optimal.     

Asymptotic behavior of the energy for a class of weakly dissipative second-order systems with memory

A class of second-order abstract systems with memory and Dirichlet boundary conditions is investigated. By suitable Liapunov functionals, existence of solutions as well as asymptotic behavior, are determined. In particular, when the memory kernel decays exponentially, the polynomially decay of the solutions is proved.     

On the decay of solutions for porous-elastic systems with history

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior to an one-dimensional porous-elasticity problem with history. We show the lack of exponential stability when the porous dissipation or the elastic dissipation is absent. And we show the lack of analyticity and exponential stability when the porous viscosity and the elastic dissipation are present.     

Decay property of Timoshenko system in thermoelasticity

We investigate the decay property of a Timoshenko system of thermoelasticity in the whole space for both Fourier and Cattaneo laws of heat conduction. We point out that although the paradox of infinite propagation speed inherent in the Fourier law is removed by changing to the Cattaneo law, the latter always leads to a solution with the decay property of the regularity‐loss type. The main tool used to prove our results is the energy method in the Fourier space together with some integral estimates. We derive L² decay estimates of solutions and observe that for the Fourier law the decay structure of solutions is of the regularity‐loss type if the wave speeds of the first and the second equations in the system are different. For the Cattaneo law, decay property of the regularity‐loss type occurs no matter what the wave speeds are. In addition, by restricting the initial data to with a suitably large s and γ ∈ [0,1], we can derive faster decay estimates with the decay rate improvement by a factor of t^?γ/2. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

General energy decay estimates of Timoshenko systems with frictional versus viscoelastic damping

In this paper we consider the following Timoshenko system: with Dirichlet boundary conditions and initial data where a, b, g and h are specific functions and ρ₁, ρ₂, k₁, k₂ and L are given positive constants. We establish a general stability estimate using the multiplier method and some properties of convex functions. Without imposing any growth condition on h at the origin, we show that the energy of the system is bounded above by a quantity, depending on g and h, which tends to zero as time goes to infinity. Our estimate allows us to consider a large class of functions h with general growth at the origin. We use some examples (known in the case of wave equations and Maxwell system) to show how to derive from our general estimate the polynomial, exponential or logarithmic decay. The results of this paper improve and generalize some existing results in the literature and generate some interesting open problems. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Energy decay to Timoshenko system with indefinite damping

We consider the classical Timoshenko system for vibrations of thin rods. The system has an indefinite damping mechanism, ie, it has a damping function a=a(x) possibly changing sign, present only in the equation for the vertical displacement. We shall prove that exponential stability depends on conditions regarding of the indefinite damping function a and a nice relationship between the coefficient of the system. Finally, we give some numerical result to verify our analytical results.     

Uniform decay in a Timoshenko-type system with past history

Fernández Sare and Rivera [H.D. Fernández Sare, J.E. Muñoz Rivera, Stability of Timoshenko systems with past history, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 339 (1) (2008) 482–502] considered the following Timoshenko-type system

ρ₁φ_tt−K(φ_x+ψ)_x=0,